Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cox exercised this authority through June 1971. The Corporation's decision to grant Cox a free hand signalled its concern with student activism, and its faith in Cox's investigatory abilities...
...turbulent years from 1968 to 1971, when the nation's universities erupted into violence, Cox earned a reputation as "university trouble-shooter," primarily for his role in investigating the Columbia University upheaval in 1968, and for his efforts in ending a Harvard building takeover in March...
...Corporation granted Cox wide, unilateral powers to handle disorders in the fall of 1969, a few months after the University Hall bust and a year after he directed a blue-ribbon commission to study the crisis at Columbia University...
...Cox earned notoriety here for his part in the controversial "counter teach-in" on March 26, 1971. In that incident, Cox called off a pro-war teach-in after 45 minutes when militant demonstrators refused to stop clapping and chanting...
When the demonstrators failed to quiet down, Cox assumed the podium and told the audience, "You have the power at any moment to disrupt this meeting at any time. But will you please let me speak...